- Well, welcome to "The 700 Club".

Expanding governmentand increasing spending

at an alarming rate.

That's what president Biden has done

in his near 100 days in office.

So what grade is he gettingfrom the American people?

How much has the border crisis hurt him?

And what about his inauguration promise

to unify the country?

Dale Hurd has the details.

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- After almost 100 days,

polling shows Joe Biden

gets a higher approvalrating than Donald Trump,

but still one of the lowest

at this point in anyadministration since World War II.

Biden's 52% approval is muchhigher than Trump's 42%,

but he's also received muchmore positive media coverage

than Donald Trump.

His handling of the COVID pandemic

has the approval of 64% of Americans,

but his handling of the border crisis

has the disapproval of 53%.

Over 172,000 migrants werestopped at the border last month,

the most in 20 years.

- I wish he'd talk aboutthe crisis on the border,

which he created and made it as a crisis,

I've been down there withGovernor Ducey to see

that he's created this crisis.

- [Dale] Vice PresidentKamala Harris claims

the crisis has no quick solution.

- It's not going to be solved overnight.

It's a complex issue.

Listen, if this were easy,

it would have been handled years ago.

If parents, and if childrencan not literally eat,

if they can not have thebasic essential things

that everyone needs to live,

of course they're going to flee

and that's what we're saying.

- [Dale] By a two to onemargin Americans believe Biden

should make major changes to his proposals

to have bipartisan Republican support.

But he passed the COVID reliefbill without GOP support

and suggested he might do the same

with his $2.3 trillioninfrastructure bill,

and he's signed 40 executive orders,

the highest of any recent president.

Republican Senator Rand Paul says,

he's still waiting on the promise of unity

Biden made at his inauguration.

- I haven't seen any of that,

I think what I've seen so far

is it's Biden's way or the highway.

I don't see anything that looks like

they want to work together.

- [Dale] Moderate democraticSenator Joe Manchin

says he doesn't support

the administration'shuge infrastructure plan.

He's calling for billions innon infrastructure spending

to be taken out.

Some Democrats say he'sstanding in the way

of the president's agenda.

- I'm not a roadblock at all.

The best politics is good government.

I am not going to be part ofblowing up this Senate of ours

or basically this democracy of ours

or the Republic that we have.

- [Dale] Meanwhile, Bidenis expanding government,

and increasing spending at a record pace.

The US government spent over$900 billion in March alone,

more than double from one year ago.

Democrat Alexandria Ocasio Cortez says

the Biden administrationhas exceeded expectations

of so-called progressives.

- The active invitation andwillingness and collaboration

with progressives in his first100 days, or almost 100 days

has been very impressive.

- In his speech to Congress,

Biden is expected to announcea $1.8 trillion package,

funding education, childcare,and paid family leave

along with more tax hikes.

Dale Hurd, CBN News.

- Well don't blame me, Ididn't put him in office.

So who are you going to blame?

I mean, somebody did, Idon't know what it was,

but it was a crazy thing that went on,

and now it's like, as I said before,

it's like Charlie McCarthysitting on Edgar Bergen's lap,

somebody is calling theshots, it's not the president.

It's like we've got anempty suit in office,

and we were wondering,where is the control?

Who is controlling?

Is it AOC?

Is it the squad in the House?

Is it Nancy Pelosi?

I mean, who's doing it?

And the thing that we got to remember is

they feel clearly, the Democrats

that they're going to lose control

of the House of Representatives,

and very possibly,

there'll be a couple ofseats in the Senate to shift,

so the control will leave them,

and in the next presidential election,

there will be another president.

So they want to get everythingin they possibly can

and fix it so that theconservatives don't have a voice.

And that's what they're trying to do,

they're trying to steal out your voice.

We're going to talk more about

what's being done with theIRS before the Supreme Court,

but there's somethingelse in the American news.

I remember,

well, this is long overdue.

That's how American Armenians

responded to presidentBiden's historic statement

regarding Turkey's genocideagainst the Armenians

by the Ottoman Empire in 1915.

The question is how will Turkey respond?

John Jessup has that.

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- That is right Pat.

For the first time in American president

officially has recognizedthe Armenian genocide.

from more than a century ago.

As Chris Mitchell reports,

while the announcementled to much jubilation,

it also sparked condemnationfrom NATO ally Turkey.

- [Chris] For years, thewhite house recognized

Armenian Remembrance day whileavoiding the term genocide,

mainly to steer clear ofpotentially alienating Turkey,

a NATO ally.

But the White House statementsaid each year on this day,

we remember the livesof all those who died

in the Ottoman-era Armenian genocide

and recommit ourselves topreventing such an atrocity

from ever again occurring.

American Armenians hailed the decision

they see as long overdue.

- We worked very hard to see

America recognize the Armenian genocide,

and so this is a new beginning for us.

I feel it's a newbeginning for my children.

- [Chris] On Twitter,Turkey's foreign minister

condemned the declaration writing,

words cannot change or rewrite history

and Turkey entirely rejects it.

Beginning of April,1915, Ottoman authorities

deported, massacred or marched to death

one and a half million Armenians

in the first mass exterminationof the 20th century.

Turkey doesn't deny thedeaths from that era

yet refuses to call it genocide.

The government maintainsthe death toll is inflated

and it all resulted from civil unrest.

Here in Jerusalem's Old City,

The Armenian Quarter reminds us

of this community'srich Christian heritage.

Still, constant reminders like this poster

signify the scars andmemories that genocide left

on Armenians here in Jerusalemand around the world.

During a ceremony in Armenia,

Armenia's prime ministercalled Biden's statement,

a powerful step on the wayto acknowledging the truth.

The White House announcement

will likely cast a chillingimpact on US Turkish relations.

Its foreign ministry said,

it would open a deep wound

that undermines mutualtrust and friendship,

and Turkey summoned the US ambassador

to protest president Biden's decision.

For now though, Armenians worldwide

feel an historic injusticeis being righted.

- You know, when you look at Ezekiel 38,

you find an alliance coming against Israel

and they talk about Gog and Magog,

most of that is located in Turkey.

And I think that Erdogan hastaken over Constantinople,

and named it Istanbul whichmeans a city of Islam.

He took over the Hagia Sophia,

the great ChristianChurch in Constantinople

and then made it into a mosque.

He is a radical, radical Muslim,

and he is a danger tothose who love freedom.

Now, CBN Middle EastBureau Chief Chris Mitchell

is going to join us from Jerusalem.

And Chris, how do youfeel Turkey might respond

to Biden naming this episodichistory as a genocide?

- Well, Pat, they may go ina few different directions,

they may actually go more intothe orbit of Russia and Iran,

that would play into thescenario there and Ezekiel 38.

But Turkey is still a NATO ally,

and right now actuallyErdogan might need Washington

more than Washington needs Turkey.

Obviously right now, TurkishUS relations are at a low ebb,

you know, it took president Biden

three months to call Erdogan,

that's not a very good sign for Turkey,

and then the news thathe greeted Erdogan with

was the recognition ofthe Armenian genocide.

Obviously that makes Erdogan very upset,

but also geopolitically,

the US is upset at Erdogan,

he's been fighting the Kurds in Syria,

we've talked a lot about that,

about a year and a half ago,

he's bullying Greece, hewants a greater Turkey,

he's trying to push into a Northern Iraq.

So what this does,

it diminishes some of Turkey'sprestige in the region,

and also, you know, onUS-Turkish relations,

the US is angry at Turkeyfor buying Russia's

S400 missile defense system.

And by the way, Pat,

I was talking to someArmenians here in Jerusalem

and they really are grateful for this,

but they say it's about time

that the US recognize this as a genocide,

106 years later after it started.

- Chris, there's a airbaseIncirlik in Turkey,

a US air base,

and I also understood that they,

we have left several intermediatenuclear weapons in Turkey.

Have we gotten those thingsout now do you think?

- Well, I think that was a good,

that was a point ofdiscussion actually when

Turkey invaded NorthernSyria, Northeast Syria,

back in, I believe let'ssee October of 2019,

that was really a point of contention,

and really kind of leaves theUS a little bit vulnerable

to have those tactical nuclearweapons at that airbase,

and remains to be seen

if they're going to try to get them out,

where sometimes perhapsErdogan could use them

as leverage against the United States.

But certainly right now,

this puts Erdogan backon his heels just a bit,

and we'll just see how this plays out

geopolitically andprophetically as you mentioned.

- Chris, I have been unable to understand

what's going on in Israel,

and perhaps you can clarify itbecause I am totally baffled.

What's the latest news in Jerusalem?

- Well, Pat, I'm a bit baffled too,

and I think a lot of Israelis are baffled,

and people that are watchingIsrael around the world,

right now, the latest isthat Netanyahu has given

Benny Gantz an offer

that he says that,

listen, you can be prime minister first

and we'll go in a rotation deal.

You go for one year, I'll go for two,

and then you can go for the final year.

Gantz has already rejected that,

but Netanyahu may actuallyoffer it to others.

He may offer it to NaftaliBennett, Gideon Sa'ar,

these are right wing parties, Pat,

that are actually in the opposition.

Naturally a right winggovernment, but actually

they are personally,

don't want to serve ina Netanyahu government,

he has only eight daysleft to form a mandate,

and it looks like President Rivlin

is going to give themandate to Yair Lapid,

and he'll have 28 days tocobble together a government.

And right now, Netanyahu,

hasn't been able to convincethose right-wing parties

to join him,

In the meantime, Naftali Bennett

is working on a unity government

with the so-called Change Block,

and so there's just

so many machinationsgoing on right now, Pat,

it's hard to keep up day by day,

but believe it or not,

still possibilities of a fifthelection later this year.

- Was he going to call a snap election

where he might be taken out,

I mean, instead of just goingto the parliamentary system?

Is that on the table?

- What he wanted to do Pat,

he's wanted to haveelections for prime minister.

Now he's the most popularcandidate for prime minister,

and he said let's have a snap election

for the prime minister,

if he gets over 40% of the vote

he can serve as prime minister

and then we can go ahead andform a coalition government.

That's going to be very hard to do

given the current makeup of the Knesset,

so we'll see what happens.

But that was one possibility,

it looks like that'sreally not going to happen

for Netanyahu.

It looks like he's not goingto be able to form a government

but it remains to be seen

if the so-called Change Block

is going to be, form a government as well.

Just one more sign of instability, Pat

and certainly why people should be praying

for the peace of Jerusalem.

- You better believe it.

Chris Mitchell, thank you from Jerusalem.

Folks, just think about it,

America is divideddesperately and we have,

in my opinion a very, very weak president.

It's unlikely who really isrunning the show in Washington.

And the Israelis, our dear friends,

the best democracy in the Middle East

is now riddled with confusion.

And the Bible says ahouse divided can't stand,

and we're both in trouble.

So who could come in?

Putin might want to dosomething with Russia.

Erdogan might want todo something was Turkey,

and we're inviting,

you know, weakness invites danger

and weakness, you know,

Reagan used to talk aboutpeace through strength.

Neither one of us are showing strength,

especially with theChinese threatening Taiwan,

the Chinese threateningthe South China Sea,

the Chinese doing everythingto provide hegemony

in the in the Far East.

And what are we going to do?

We are faced with major, major challenges.

John.

- Well, Pat back here at home,

the family of a man killed by police

in Elizabeth City, North Carolina

is preparing to see policebody cam video of the incident.

County Sheriff's deputiesshot and killed Andrew Brown

last Wednesday,

as they sought to carryout an arrest warrant

for felony drug charges.

The chief deputy said Brown's past

indicated he posed a danger,but the family's attorney said,

the Sheriff's office toldhim Brown was unarmed.

- Mr. Brown with a convicted felon

with a history of resisting arrest.

- Something was shared that

there was no drugs or a weapon involved.

- [John] The incident sparked protests

and city and state officials

are now calling for investigations.

Seven Pasquotank County deputies

are on administrative leave.

The Sheriff, mayor and city council

as well as North CarolinaGovernor Roy Cooper

all are calling for the releaseof the body cam footage,

which requires a judge's approval.

A family attorney expects a judge

to approve that request today.

Well, a diverse collectionof interest groups

at the Supreme Court today,

Christians and Muslim organizations

joining the pro-gay HumanRights Campaign among others.

The reason, to fight a California law

demanding non-profits disclosetheir major donor lists.

The state argues it needs the names

to determine if a charityis misusing its assets.

The nonprofits say donorsare entitled to their privacy

particularly since taking astand on issues like abortion,

religious liberties andgay and transgender rights

can bring harmful social media backlash,

including the postingof private information

like home addresses, places of business

even children's names and images.

California says it canprotect the information,

but groups argue databases can be hacked

and Pat, information can be leaked.

- There is no questionthat left-wing groups

will use it againstconservatives to silence them.

I mean, imagine

if the donors to a conservative charity

are suddenly pilloried

and their names are putout in social media,

what are they going todo with their money?

They're not going to give it any longer.

The same thing with left-wing groups.

If they are put out and they say,

are you realizing that this charity

is getting its money fromthe LGBTQ organization,

well, you're not going togive them money anymore.

And to cut off the source of funding

is the way they killone of these charities.

So I do hope, I do hope the Supreme Court

will come down on theside of reason on that one

and say, no you can't force charities

to give up their importantor proprietary information.